National Affairs: Is It True...?

The rumor that would not be downed in Washington was that Secretary of
State Dean Acheson would be out by the first of the year. The election
gave it new impetus. "I would assume with these election results," said
Harold Stassen, "that Secretary Acheson would resign." G.O.P. National
Chairman Guy Gabrielson felt the same way. Republican Senators,
including Joe McCarthy and Bourke Hickenlooper, began warming up for
new investigations of the State Department.

At his first post-election press conference, Dean Acheson was ready for
the question. "I should say that happily the interpretation of election
returns in the United States does not...